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Gigant

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m. A giant; gigas :-- Untydras onwócon, eotenas, swylce gigantas unnatural progenies sprang forth, monsters, also giants, Beo. Th. 226; B. 113. Swá swá gigant yrnþ on his weg ut gigas ad currendam viam, Ps. Th. 18, 6. Ne se gigant ne wyrþ ná gehǽled nec gigas salvus erit, 32, 14. He ðone gigant ofwearp he struck down the giant, Blickl. Homl. 31, 18. [Lat. gigas; gen. gigantis.] gigant
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛁᚷᚪᚾᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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